Re: [Q] About halting problems at installation of cygwin

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

> In your setup.log.full, you had lots of these messages:
> > 2006/07/25 17:12:47 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
>
> My recollection is that this has been improved in a recent snapshot of
> setup.exe - who is in charge of releasing the next setup.exe version?

Indeed.

> > 2006/07/25 17:32:58 running: C:\Apps\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/aalib.sh
> > /usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/aalib.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> > 2006/07/25 17:33:01 running: C:\Apps\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/apache.sh
> > /usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/apache.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> > 2006/07/25 17:33:01 running: C:\Apps\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/apache2.sh
> > /usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/apache2.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> > 2006/07/25 17:33:01 running: C:\Apps\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/00ash.sh
> > 2006/07/25 17:33:02 abnormal exit: exit code=0
>
> Hmm - when doing a global install of every single cygwin package (which
> usually isn't recommended, but is what you did),

Frankly, one reason it wasn't recommended was probably the fact that
postinstall scripts wouldn't run correctly on a full install, so you'd end
up with a broken one.  Read on.

> it looks like the setup.exe sort method of postinstall scripts is
> alphabetical by package name, not by postinstall name.  I wish we could
> get a setup.exe that sorted by dependency order instead.

Setup *does* sort in dependency order, but there was a bug in script
detection that caused setup to fail to associate the scripts with their
packages, so all scripts were run in the catch-all clause, which sorted
alphabetically.  This has also been improved in the recent setup
snapshots.  I wish we could get a setup.exe release...  Brian?
	Igor
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